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Date:      Sat, 24 Nov 2001 07:37:01 -0600
From:      jacks@sage-american.com
To:        RoKlein@roklein.de, "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: PPPoE on DSL Clients
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.20011124073701.01031c68@mail.sage-american.com>
In-Reply-To: <E167cWJ-0008BE-00@mrvdom01.schlund.de>
References:  <3.0.5.32.20011124065606.0100ffd0@mail.sage-american.com> <3.0.5.32.20011123232154.0100ffd0@mail.sage-american.com> <3.0.5.32.20011124065606.0100ffd0@mail.sage-american.com>

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I running DNS on 192.168.0.1 (the gateway)....

I tried pointing the clients to the ISP nameserver, but no change...

At 03:08 PM 11.24.2001 +0100, Robert Klein wrote:
>On Saturday, 24. November 2001 13:56, you wrote:
>>...yes, pointed to the gateway 192.168.0.1
>>>dumb question, but do the internal hosts have a DNS server configured?
>
>That's the problem. You have to point the hosts to a DNS server.  So you
have 
>either to run DNS on 192.168.0.1, or point the clients to the same name 
>server your gateway points to.
>
>The entries in the gateway's resolv.conf are used for requests originating 
>from the gateway only.  
>
>You could, however, install a forwarding DNS server on the gateway, that
gets 
>your clients requests and forwards them to the "real" DNS server, if you 
>don't want your clients to point to an outside server...
>
>Regards,
>Robert Klein
>
>

Best regards,
Jack L. Stone,
Server Admin

Sage-American
http://www.sage-american.com
jacks@sage-american.com

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